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Hi. What was the outcome to this? Did it get sorted? Did you have to provide statements/references? My OH had a juvenile conviction so his Police Check has come back No Live Trace as it was 14 years ago. I won't have a clue where to start with a statement or what needs to be in a reference:confused:

everything worked out prefectly :biggrin:

we payed a migrant agent $300 for advice (which was a bit of a waste as she just told us what most people in this thread mentioned).

My partner wrote a statement to explain he was sorry for his 'crime' and we both wrote a statement apologising for not declaring the conviction an the application. My partner also got two character references from his previous employers stating 'he is a good character'.

anyway no issues, PR granted a day after I submitted all the final documents.

Been loving Oz since PR grant but miss home and fam quite a bit. Good luck with your application and don't stress, as long as your partner hasn't spent 12 months or more in prison I think you will be fine.

get your PCC done first and see if it shows up

we got our grant today! thanks for your help and advice - i don't we would have made it without you guys!

crap, crap, crap..... i don't know what to do anymore. I have tried to seek some help from a agent, but because of the stupid bank holidays she won't work on my case till Tuesday/Wednesday next week. I'm so stressed at the moment, i'm not eating or sleeping properly and im at a stupid mine site having to work 12 hours a days for the next 7 days an everything seems to be going wrong. I don't know what to do anymore, a part of me just wants to go back home and forget about this idea of living in Australia. Its just too hard sometimes.

We honestly didn't know we have to declare spent convictions, i didn't even know what a spent conviction was an my partner thought (as he told when he got the conviction) he didn't have to declare it so in all his immigration application (in the card you fill out on the plane, his student visa application and now his current 457 application) he always ticked 'no' under criminal convictions.... so i guess we are going to get in trouble for that as well.

He feels so bad right now (i think he is not eating or sleeping either) he has asked me to remove him from the application as its not worth both of us getting rejected an he has a current 457 application pending, so has that to fall back on.... but i don't even know if that would even help (as would I have to explain why I am removing him) and if his 457 got rejected I definitely wouldn't want to stay in Australia without him.

I thought everything was going so smoothly till this point, grrr... there ain't nuffin good about this friday thats for sure!

We recently lodge our 190 application. I am the main applicant and my partner is the secondary applicant. We answered “no” to the question on the application “ has any applicant ever been convicted of a crime or offence in any country (including any conviction which is now removed from official records)?”. When perhaps we should have answered “yes”.

My partner has a spent conviction, he was caught shop lifting 4 years ago from Coles supermarket. We assumed as it was a spent conviction, we did not have to declare it but it has shown up in his police clearance… are we now completely screwed?? What should we do?